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Biography Subjects: Historical Paper Topics for Students

Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.

NOTE: Names in boldface are especially prominent figures who often receive extensive coverage in history of psychology textbooks.

Abnormal Psychology: Eugen Bleuler, Pierre Janet, Emil Kraepelin, Morton Prince, Thomas Story Kirkbride, Elizabeth Packard, Dorothea Dix, Benjamin Rush, Philippe Pinel, Sigmund Freud

Adolescence: Harold Jones, Leta S. Hollingworth, Mary Cover Jones, G. Stanley Hall

Advertising: Harlow Gale, Harry Hollingworth, Albert Poffenberger, Walter Dill Scott, Daniel Starch

Aesthetics, Beauty: Henry Rutgers Marshall, Ethel Puffer (Howes), Herbert Sidney Langfeld, Gustav Fechner

African-American Psychologists: Kenneth B. Clark, Mamie Phipps Clark, Francis Cecil Sumner, Charles Henry Turner, Inez Beverly Prosser, Ruth Winifred Howard, Allison Davis, James A. Bayton, Dalmas A. Taylor, Carolyn Payton, Albert Sidney Beckham, Robert V. Guthrie

Aging, Psychology of: Sidney L. Pressey, G. Stanley Hall

Anger: Florence Goodenough

Animal Behavior: George Romanes, Conwy Lloyd Morgan, Jacques Loeb, Winthrop N. Kellogg, Henry W. Nissen, Carl J. Warden, Margaret Floy Washburn, Robert M. Yerkes, Willard Small, Keller and Marion Breland, Allen and Beatrix Gardner, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Leonard Carmichael, Karl von Frisch, Edward L. Thorndike, John B. Watson, Charles Darwin

Anthropology: Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas

Aptitude Testing: Walter Van Dyke Bingham, Clark L. Hull

Architecture: Henry Rutgers Marshall

Art: Rudolf Arnheim, Arthur Melton, William James

Art Therapy: Margaret Naumburg

Asian Psychologists: Zing-Yang Kuo, Robert Chin Biography Papers - page 2

Attachment, Imprinting: Mary D. S. Ainsworth, John Bowlby, Eckerd Hess, Konrad Lorenz, John Paul Scott

Attitudes: Gordon Allport, Edward L. Thorndike, Gardner Murphy

Audition (see Hearing)

Authoritarian Personality: Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswick

Autism: Leo Kanner

Biopsychology: Paul Broca, Johannes Müller, Charles S. Sherrington, Donald O. Hebb, Shepherd Ivory Franz, Karl Spencer Lashley, Roger Sperry

Catholicism: Edward Aloysius Pace, Virginia Staudt Sexton

Child Rearing: Arnold Gesell, Henry Herbert Goddard, Louise Bates Ames, John B. Watson

Classification of Mental Disorders: Emil Kraepelin

Clinical Psychology: Clifford W. Beers, Mary Cover Jones, David Shakow, Frederick C. Thorne, Carl Rogers

Clothing: J. C. Flugel

Cognition: Walter Pillsbury, Karl Duncker, Lillien Jane Martin, Frederic Bartlett, Donald E. Broadbent, Charles Cofer, Jerome S. Bruner, Herbert Simon (see also, Memory, Thinking)

Color Perception: Christine Ladd-Franklin, Ewald Hering, Hermann Helmholtz

Consumer Psychology: George Katona

Counseling Psychology: Frank Parsons, Donald G. Paterson, Leona E. Tyler, Donald E. Super

Creativity: Charles Spearman, June Etta Downey, Donald W. MacKinnon

Criminology: Caesar Lombroso, Henry Herbert Goddard, R. L. Dugdale, Carl A. Murchison

Developmental Psychology: Roger G. Barker, Charlotte M. Buhler, Arnold Gesell, Florence Goodenough, Harold E. Jones, Mary Cover Jones, Myrtle McGraw, Naomi Norsworthy, Heinz Werner, Margaret Wooster Curti, Helen Woolley, James Mark Baldwin, Barbel Inhelder, Kurt Koffka, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget (see also child rearing, infancy)

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Economics: John Stuart Mill, Friederich A. Hayek, Herbert Simon, Amos Tversky

Educational Psychology: Lawrence Augustus Averill, Arthur Gates, Charles H. Judd, Naomi Norsworthy, Sidney L. Pressey, Percival M. Symonds, George Stoddard, Harry Kirke Wolfe, John J. B. Morgan, G. Stanley Hall

Emotion: Walter B. Cannon, Frederick H. Lund, Magda Arnold, Lipot Szondi, Martin L. Reymert, Sylvan S. Tomkins, William James

Eugenics: C. B. Davenport, Henry Herbert Goddard, Francis Galton, James McKeen Cattell

Evolution: Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Charles Lyell, Alfred Russel Wallace, Herbert Spencer, Julian Huxley, Charles Darwin

Feral Children: Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard, Winthrop Kellogg, Robert M. Zingg

Genetics, Behavioral: James Mark Baldwin, Barbara S. Burks, Robert C. Tryon

Giftedness: Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Catherine Cox Miles, Lewis M. Terman, Francis Galton

Grief: Thomas D. Eliot

Handwriting: June Etta Downey

Hearing: Ewald Hering, Hermann von Helmholtz, Georg von Bekesy, S. S. Stevens

Hispanic Psychologists: George I. Sanchez, Martha Bernal, Jose Ingenieros (note that all of his works are in Spanish, so that the student must be able to read Spanish well), Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Juan Luis Vives, Carlos Albizu-Miranda, Ignacio Martin-Baro, Rene A. Ruiz

History: Edwin G. Boring, Edna Heidbreder, Robert I. Watson

Homosexuality: Evelyn Hooker, Roger Brown

Humanistic Psychology: Charlotte Buhler, Viktor Frankl, Rollo May, Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow

Hypnosis: James Braid, Jean-Martin Charcot, George H. Estabrooks, Milton H. Erickson, Ernest R. Hilgard, Clark L. Hull, Nicholas P. Spanos, Martin Orne, Alfred Binet

Imprinting (see attachment)

Indian Psychology: Jadunath Sinha

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Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Walter Van Dyke Bingham, Charles S. Myers, Harold E. Burtt, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Harry Levi Hollingworth, Walter Dill Scott, Daniel Starch, Morris S. Viteles, Donald A. Laird, Edward K. Strong, Jr., Henry C. Link, John G. Jenkins, Marion A. Bills, Elsie Bregman, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Elton Mayo, Orlo Lee Crissey, Edwin Ghiselli, Ross Stagner

Infancy: Nancy Bayley, Psyche Cattell, Milicent Shinn, Arnold Gesell

Instincts: Conwy Lloyd Morgan, Henry Rutgers Marshall, William McDougall, Zing-Yang Kuo

Intelligence: Alfred Binet, Cyril Burt, Henry H. Goddard, Florence Goodenough, J. P. Guilford, Charles Spearman, Otto Klineberg, Margaret Wooster Curti, Lewis M. Terman, Louis L. Thurstone, George Sanchez, David Wechsler

Introspection: Oswald Külpe, Edward Bradford Titchener, Wilhelm Wundt

Juvenile Delinquency: William Healy, Augusta Bronner (note Bronner and Healy were married and published many things together), Grace M. Fernald, Cyril Burt

Language: Roger Brown, George I. Sanchez, Friedrich Max Mueller

Law and Psychology: Steuart Henderson Britt, Hugo Münsterberg, William Stern, Gustav M. Gilbert, William Moulton Marston, Harold Burtt

Learning: Knight Dunlap, Horsley Gantt, Donald O. Hebb, Walter S. Hunter, Karl Spencer Lashley, O. Hobart Mowrer, Edwin B. Twitmyer, Fred S. Keller, James V. McConnell, Ellen Reese, Clark L. Hull, Edward C. Tolman, Edwin Guthrie, B. F. Skinner, Ivan Pavlov, Wolfgang Köhler

Literature: June Etta Downey

Love: Harry F. Harlow

Marriage: Lewis Terman, Franz Müller-Lyer

Memory: Frederic C. Bartlett, Mary Whiton Calkins, Georg E. Müller, Roger Brown, James V. McConnell, Hermann Ebbinghaus

Mental Asylums: Clifford W. Beers, Thomas Story Kirkbride, Elizabeth W. Packard

Mental Retardation: Henry Herbert Goddard, Frederick Kuhlmann, Leta S. Hollingworth, John E. Wallace Wallin, Naomi Norsworthy

Mental Testing: Frederick Kuhlmann, Henry Herbert Goddard, Lewis Terman, James McKeen Biography Papers - page 5

Cattell, Naomi Norsworthy

Mexico: Ezequiel Chavez, Enrique O. Aragón

Military Psychology: John Flanagan, Walter Dill Scott, Robert M. Yerkes, Edwin G. Boring, Charles W. Bray, Gustav M. Gilbert

Moral Behavior: Robert R. Sears, Lawrence Kohlberg, Carol Gilligan

Motivation: Henry A. Murray, Richard L. Solomon, Helen Peak, Abraham Maslow

Multiple Personality: Pierre Janet, Morton Prince, Chris Costner Sizemore

Music, Psychology of: Carl E. Seashore, Carl Stumpf, Max F. Meyer, Thomas R. Garth

Native American: Carolyn Attneave

Neurology: Henry H. Donaldson

Neuropsychology: Elmer Ernest Southard, Shepherd Ivory Franz, Ward Halstead, Ralph M. Reitan

Pain: Henry Rutgers Marshall, Walter B. Cannon

Parapsychology: Theodore Flournoy, Gardner Murphy, Joseph Banks Rhine, Karl Zener, James H. Hyslop

Peace: Edward C. Tolman, Mark A. May, Ralph White

Perception: Adelbert Ames, Egon Brunswick, Karl Buhler, Christine Ladd-Franklin, Harry Helson, George M. Stratton, James J. Gibson, Eleanor J. Gibson, Max Wertheimer

Personality: Mary Whiton Calkins, Gordon W. Allport, Henry A. Murray, W. H. Sheldon, Raymond B. Cattell, Hans Eysenck, J. P. Guilford, Starke Hathaway, George A. Kelly, Hermann Rorschach, Robert Bernreuter, Abraham Maslow

Philosophy: Herbert Spencer, James McCosh, Thomas Upham, George F. Stout, Josiah Royce, Mary Whiton Calkins, George Santayana, George S. Fullerton

Phrenology: George Combe, Lorenzo and Orson Fowler

Physical Handicap: Rudolf Pintner, J. E. Wallace Wallin, Roger G. Barker

Play Therapy: Virginia Axline Biography Papers - page 6

Poetry: Hartley Burr Alexander

Poland: Robert Zajonc

Political Psychology: Paul F. Lazarsfeld, M. Brewster Smith

Popularization of Psychology: Joseph Jastrow, Henry A. Overstreet, Albert Edward Wiggam, Donald Laird, Grace Adams, Henry Knight Miller, Anna Maud Hallam, Seymour Weltmer

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Charles Samuel Myers, William H. R. Rivers, Harry Hollingworth, Elmer Ernest Southard

Prejudice: Gordon W. Allport

Projective Testing: Christiana D. Morgan, Hermann Rorschach, Grace Kent, Molly Harrower, Henry Murray, Wayne Holtzman

Propaganda: Leonard Doob

Pseudopsychologies: Holmes W. Merton, Lorenzo and Orson Fowler, Katherine Blackford, David V. Bush, Samuel Wells, Nelson Sizer (see Parapsychology, Phrenology)

Psychiatry: Hans Berger, Thomas Story Kirkbride, Emil Kraepelin, Adolf Meyer, Egas Moniz, Benjamin Rush, John J. Putnam, Smith Ely Jeliffe, Robert H. Felix, Karl A. Menninger

Psychoanalysis: James J. Putnam, Sandor Ferenczi, Lou Andreas Salome, Ernest Jones, Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Carl G. Jung, Alfred Adler, Karen Horney, Harry S. Sullivan

Psychological Testing: Anne Anastasi, Oscar Buros, James McKeen Cattell

Psychophysics: Edwin G. Boring, S. S. Stevens, Ernst Weber, Gustav Fechner

Psychotherapy: Elwood Worcester, Hugo Münsterberg, Joseph Wolpe, Carl Rogers

Public Opinion: Hadley Cantril

Race and Racism: Carl Brigham, Henry Garrett, Otto Klineberg, Thomas Russell Garth, Isidor Chein, Margaret Wooster Curti, Kenneth and Mamie Clark, Stuart Cook

Radio, Psychology of: Gordon W. Allport, Hadley Cantril

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Rehabilitation (see Physical Handicap)

Relaxation: Edmund Jacobson, George T. W. Patrick

Religion, Psychology of: Edward Scribner Ames, George Albert Coe, James H. Leuba, Edwin Diller Starbuck, George Trumbull Ladd, Elwood Worcester, Harald Hoffding, Sante de Sanctis, Lee Edward Travis, William James, G. Stanley Hall

Scaling: Rensis Likert, Charles E. Osgood, S. S. Stevens

School Psychology: Arnold Gesell, J. E. Wallace Wallin, Gertrude Hildreth, Norma E. Cutts, Marie Skodak (Crissey)

Sex: Havelock Ellis, Alfred C. Kinsey, Frank A. Beach

Sleep: Nathaniel Kleitman, Edmund Jacobson, Eugene Aserinsky

Small Town vs. Big City: Roger G. Barker

Social Activism: David Krech, Ross Stagner, Edward C. Tolman, Goodwin Watson, Stuart Cook, Brewster Smith, Kenneth B. Clark

Social Psychology: Floyd Allport, Gardner Murphy, Hadley Cantril, Fritz Heider, Gustave LeBon, Edward A. Ross, Norman Triplett, Leon Festinger, Solomon Asch, Theodore M. Newcomb, Stanley Schachter, Muzafer Sherif

Socialism: J. F. Brown

Speech Pathology: Edward Wheeler Scripture

Sport Psychology: Coleman Griffith, Edward W. Scripture, Norman Triplett, Walter Miles

Stress: Edmund Jacobson, Hans Selye

Taste and Smell: Harry Hollingworth, Carl Pfaffmann

Teaching: Fred S. Keller

Thinking: Frederic Bartlett, Karl Duncker, Max Wertheimer

Turkey: Muzafer Sherif

Twins: Cyril Burt

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Utopias: Hugo Münsterberg, G. Stanley Hall, John B. Watson, B. F. Skinner

Vocational Guidance: Frank Parsons, Edward K. Strong, Jr., Donald Super

Women, Psychology of: John Stuart Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Helen Thompson Woolley, Carolyn Wood Sherif, Barbara Strudler Wallston, Elizabeth Packard, Kate Gordon

Word Association: Wilhelm Wundt, Max Wertheimer, Carl G. Jung, Hermann Ebbinghaus

World War I: Robert Yerkes, Walter Dill Scott, Harry Hollingworth, Elmer Ernest Southard